On the road - once again! May 15, 2007
Posted by Tobias Scherbaum in : Events, Gentoo, On the road ... , add a commentIt’s once again that time - one event is taking place just directly when an other one just closed its doors. In the next 3 weeks I’ll be visiting Graz (Austria), Hamburg (Germany) and the LinuxTag, this time taking place in Berlin,Germany.
Starting my Road-Trip this Friday with a journey towards Graz where we (amne, roger55 and some other Gentoo people - what about wschlich btw?) will represent Gentoo at the LinuxTage (19.05.), an event which itself is part of an larger event - the Austrian LinuxWochen. On Saturday we’ll have a booth and show our latest release 2007.0. Later on amne and I’ll hold a talk about our beloved Metadistribution. While the talk itself isn’t that spectacular or even new, it’s the first time we’ll held this talk together, I guess that’ll be much fun!
The weekend after that I’ll be visiting Hamburg to attend a Gentoo User Meeting, mainly organized by some Forums People. I’ve never been in Hamburg before, so I engaged Jokey to be my personal city-guide. Maybe we have enough time to visit at least some of Hamburg’s most famous tourist attractions.
My Road-Trip ends in Berlin where I’ve been for the last time one and a half year ago. Besides visiting LinuxTag and taking LPI exams to finally pass the Level 2 (and hopefully Level 3) certification, the most interesting part of the Berlin journey is meeting people. hollow and rbu to name some of them (what about hd-brummy, plate, trapni?), but also zypher will probably be in Berlin - and lots of other people too.
That being said - if you’re interested in meeting me (and sign keys …) on my Road-Trip, just drop me a mail!
FOSDEM report, part one February 24, 2007
Posted by Tobias Scherbaum in : Events, Gentoo , add a commentAfter a very smooth train-ride via Cologne we (Kugelfang and I) arrived at Brussels-Midi yesterday evening at 17 o’clock. We met with hansmi, killerfox, blubb, CHTEKK and some SysCP Developers at the train station and moved to the youth hostel via Metro from there.
After having lunch at Pizza Hut we tried to attend the usual Beer-event, but the location was already more than full when we got there. So, we went back to the youth hostel. After searching for a night-shop where we bought some beverages (i.e. beer) we found out that the youth hostel also has a little bar. I tried Grimbergen Gold, Westmalle and Leffe Gold - all of them very tasty :)
We arrived the ULB this morning at about 10, Pylon and I where the first Gentoo people at our booth … As you probably notice the wifi-network is up and running, I’ll report a little bit more later on … (at least I’ll try to ..)
Linux World Expo Cologne/Germany 14th-16th November November 12, 2006
Posted by Tobias Scherbaum in : Events, Gentoo , add a comment This years Linux World Expo in Germany will open its doors next Tuesday. After taking place in Frankfurt/Main for a few years the LWE moved to Cologne this year. Christian Hartmann is again managing our booth and several developers especially from the “Ruhrgebiet” and the Cologne/Bonn area already announced their attendance - if you’re around you should visit our LWE-crew :) Also the Förderverein Gentoo e.V. / Friends of Gentoo e.V. will hold their annual meeting on Wednesday evening at the Chaos Computer Club Cologne.
Sadly I for one won’t be able to attend most parts of the LWE as I’m quite busy with preparing for my final examination on November 20th. Nevertheless I’ll once again give my “Gentoo Metadistribution” speech on Wednesday evening and attend the annual meeting afterwards. Also I’m trying to take some gpg fingerprints for keysigning with me ;) See ya in Cologne!
Practical Linux in Giessen, Germany October 12, 2006
Posted by Tobias Scherbaum in : Events, Gentoo , add a comment… and now also on planet.gentoo.org … Hi everyone ;)
After being at the “Practical Linux” event in Giessen in 2003 we’ll be there again this year. Back then in 2003 the Practical Linux event happened just one day after we founded the “Förderverein Gentoo e.V.”, mainly to help with promoting Gentoo in Germany and being visible at even more events. Now, three years later, we can say: yeah, we reached that goal - at least partly. This year we only missed the “LinuxTag”, but were or will be present at nearly all larger Linux events over here. I personally attened (and gave talks at) the “Chemnitzer Linuxtage”, FroSCon in Siegburg, Come2Linux in Essen and the “Linux-Info-Tag in Dresden last weekend.
So, we’re once again happy to meet lots of folks for discussions, suggestions or just positive feedback in Giessen on the 21th. You can find more information about this event on the Practical Linux website. See you in Giessen!
Linux Info Tag in Dresden October 3, 2006
Posted by Tobias Scherbaum in : Events, Gentoo , add a commentYeah, it’s that time again :) Just after the summer holidays the fall season of Linux events started, me being part of it. In September we had a Gentoo booth at “Come2Linux” in Essen and I held three talks - two of them about Gentoo. While I was very sceptical before the event started, the organization team managed to organize a very nice event. They even had a “Gulasch-Kanone” ;) The only negative aspect about “Come2Linux” was the number of visitors, the publicity somehow wasn’t as good as last year.
Next weekend I’ll be in Dresden for the first time at the “Linux Info Tag” with my “Gentoo Metadistribution” talk. Once again flying is not even faster but also much cheaper as travelling by train - funny, isn’t it? I already talked to “Mr.Big”, a community member who I met in Chemnitz now several times, who also will be Dresden. If you’d also like to invite me for a coffee or Mate just me drop me note ;)
More events coming soon, there’s the “Practical Linux” event in Giessen, Linux World Expo in Cologne and of course the 23C3 in Berlin left on my agenda for this year.
